President Kaler at UMD

University of Minnesota President Eric Kaler will be meeting with UMD students on Friday, September 20 from 11 a.m. to noon in 245 Kirby Plaza. “I’d love to hear about your concerns and the top issues on campus,” says Kaler.

President Kaler meets with students in the order in which they arrive, individually or in groups of up to three people. To accommodate as many students as possible, visits are 10-minute time slots.

Sign-up will begin at 10:30 a.m., 30 minutes prior to the start of office hours. Sign up will be outside of room 245 Kirby Plaza. Students won’t be able to sign up for a specific time slot and President Kaler isn’t able to intervene in problems that are appropriately handled by deans or other University officials.

More about President Kaler:
When Eric Kaler took office on July 1, 2011, he became only the second alumnus to rise to the position of the University of Minnesota president. President Kaler received his Ph.D. in chemical engineering from the University in 1982 and went on to become one of the nation’s foremost experts on complex fluids, which have applications in drug delivery, food processing, pharmaceuticals, and manufacturing. In 2012, Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano named President Kaler to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Academic Advisory Council. In 2013, he was named a Charter Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors.